Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958-2010 by Andre, Carl; Vergne, Philippe, and Raymond, Yasmil (Edited by) - 2014

New York and New Haven, CT: Dia Art Foundation; Yale University Press, 2014. Cloth, 398 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Dia: Beacon, May 5, 2014 to March 2, 2015; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, May 7 to October 12, 2015; Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum fur Gegenwart, May 7 to September 25, 2016; and the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, October 20, 2016 to February 12, 2017. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. " Carl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a highly influential voice in the American minimalist movement, recognized for his ordered linear and grid formats. In the early 1960s, Andre's creative focus shifted to writing poetry when he took a job as a freight brakeman and conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad. His poems echoed and extended the themes in his sculptural work, and his experience with the railroad significantly influenced his choice of materials in later years. In this stunning catalogue, which accompanies the first retrospective of Andre's work since 1970, the artist's legacy is examined in eleven essays by international scholars. The book presents a broad range of sculpture made over the past fifty years, including Andre's emblematic floor and corner pieces, highlighting his radical use of standardized units of industrial material such as timber planks, concrete blocks, and metal plates. A vast selection of Andre's previously unpublished concrete poems, together with letters, postcards, ephemera, and documentation of important installations, further complements our understanding of an essential figure in the history of contemporary art." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Carl Andre and Alden Carr: the sculptor, the poet, and the forger, by Philippe Vergne; Carl Andre: a conversation (1976), by Phyllis Tuchman; A theory of proximity, by Yasmil Raymond; Carl Andre's lyric heart, by Vincent Katz; Carl Andre's atomism, by Brooke Holmes; Ground rules, by Anne Rorimer; The palpable word: the one hundred sonnets, by Marjorie Perloff; "Broken is the high column": on Lever and a few other gravitational columns in the art of the 1960s, by Arnauld Pierre; Carl Andre's poetry and the mapping of media, by Alistair Rider; Situating Rust Garden: Carl Andre in Japan, by Mika Yoshitake; Cut and drill: the poetry of Carl Andre, by Christophe Cherix; Carl Andre: biographical notes, by Manuel Cirauqui; Carl Andre: chart of materials, 1958-2011, by Manuel Cirauqui.. 1st. Hardcover. NEW. 4to. Collectible.